Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Ketcham, William 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Ketcham, William – A number of the more advanced of Grundy County 
agriculturists have satisfied themselves by long experiment that it pays to 
feed their grain to high grade stock which they breed and raise for the 
market.  One of the men who is making a success of grain farming and stock 
raising, and gaining a well-earned prestige among his associates as a good 
business man, is William Ketcham of Aux Sable Township.  Mr. Ketcham was born 
at Cheyenne, Wyo., August 18, 1876, son of Frank and Zelda A. (Haight) 
Ketcham.  The father was born at Chesterville, Ohio, and his wife at 
Burlington, Iowa.  The families on both sides went out to Wyoming before any 
railroad was built through the west, and the parents were married at 
Cheyenne.  They were stock raisers, and the father died on his farm in 1908, 
the mother surviving him and operating the ranch.

William Ketcham was brought up in Wyoming, where he received a good public 
school education, and training in agricultural matters.  When he was thirty-
one years old, he came as far east as Grundy County, Ill., and located in Aux 
Sable Township.  Here he was married in 1906, and began operating a portion of 
the Newman homestead of 112 acres in this same township.  Until the fall of 
1911, Mr. and Mrs. Ketcham resided with Mrs. Newman, but at that time moved 
into their own house built on their part of the farm.  Mr. Ketcham has been 
very successful in his operations and is now largely devoting himself to the 
raising of grain for his stock.

On Sept. 3, 1906, Mr. Ketcham was married to Carrie Newman, born in Aux Sable 
Township, daughter of Henry and Magdalena Newman.  There have been no children 
of this marriage.  Politically, Mr. Ketcham is a Socialist and looks forward 
to the time when some of the problems which confront the intelligent man of 
today, are solved by the application of the remedies advocated by the 
adherents of his party.

page 846

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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